Pink shoes, brown bodies: How dancers of color are fighting for representation - Salon

Pink shoes, brown bodies: How dancers of color are fighting for representation - Salon

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Pink shoes, brown bodies: How dancers of color are fighting for representation Salon While there's a purpose to the uniformity — "to not break the line in the extension, so it looks like one color all the way down to the ballet shoe," as Webster says — the naming and the choice of color privileges white skin tones. For dancers whose ...